Quotes by Ida B. Wells - Page 1

Virtue knows no color line.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Color
Lines
Virtue
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Lynching is color line murder.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Color
Lines
Lynching
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Appetite
Grows
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Afros
Race
Bestial
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Commit
Murder
Writing
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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Backbone
Thus
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Light
Turns
Way
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Home
Black
Should Have
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Afros
Spirit
Grown
Increasing
Mob
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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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Dog
Fighting
Justice
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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
African American
Injustice
Remedy
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Fraud
Intimidation
Violence
White
Became
Complete
Soon
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Men
Victory
White Man
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Arms
Can Do
Lynching
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Compare
Educator
People
Act
Must People Know
Before
Must
Press
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
White
God Man Will
Dollar
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Civil Rights
Giving
Law
Rights
Box
Ballot
Ballot Box
Civil
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Defense
Gun
Self
Self Defense
Assaulted
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Men
Conscience
Made
Pockets
White
White Man
More
Man
Appeal
Been
Ever
Effectual
His
Pocket
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Afros
Fallen
Race
Seems
Sinning
Against
Somebody
Show
Must
Sinned
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Government
Law
Law And Order
Order
Degree
Inhabitants
Realized
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I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Baby
Believe
Country
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Accusing
Capital Punishment
Crime
Deserving
Lynching
Party
Punishment
Tables
Becomes
Capital
Small
Moment
Turned
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Men
Brave
Bravery
Defense
Individual
Lynching
Resistance
Single
Torture
Make
Bound
Brave Men
He
Cannot
Even
Feeble
Gather
Single Individual
Thousands
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The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Men
Doors
Reading
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Body
Century
Cutting
Ears
Fingers
Lynching
Nineteenth Century
Portions
Toes
Among
Crowd
Cuts
Off
Mob
Nineteenth
Strips
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Men
Character
Memphis
Protect
Standing
White
White Man
Avail
City
Dares
Himself
Neither
Nor
Rival
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It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
African American
Goal
Responsibility
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Country
Crime
Fury
Insane
Lynching
Outburst
Unspeakable
Creature
Hour
Mob
National
Sudden
Uncontrolled
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Women
Crime
Lynching
Race
Men Women White
Commission
Suffered
Women Men White
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I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Heart
Lynching
Stories
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Women
America
Lynching
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
America
Burning
Civilized
Inability
Offenders
Protect
Shooting
States
United States
United States Of America
Alleged
Nation
Hanging
Savage
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Avoided
Lynching
Menace
Satisfied
Should Have
Spirit
Suffrage
Suppression
Universal
Universal Suffrage
Vote
Absolute
Alleged
Mob
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Afternoon
Children
Cooking
Country
Friday
Miles
Riding
Saturday
Six
Sunday
Washing
Came
Ironing
Mule
Spent
Sunday Afternoon
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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Civilization
Law
Lynching
Orderly
Spread
West
Disappeared
Emergency
Existing
Gradually
Held
Longer
Processes
Sway
Territories
Thus
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In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.
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Intimidation
Slave
Submissive
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Country
Effort
Lynching
Moral
Philanthropic
Slaughter
Wholesale
Years
Although
Number
Forces
Forth
Increased
Steadily
Twenty
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Work
Conscience
Demand
Done
Justice
People
Punishment
Race
Feel
Time Work Done
American
American People
Any
Arouse
Same
Citizen
Every
Contribute
Work Time Service
Lawless
Proving
Same Time
Service
Shall
Toward
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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Black History
Dog
Fighting
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Women
Excuse
Human Beings
Judging
Jury
Lynching
Men And Women
Wholesale
Women Are
Judge
Although
Death Men Women
Beings
Death Women Men
In Fact
Longer
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Home
Concerned
Helpful
School
Simple
Training
Coming
Dealt
Feeling
Homes
Instinctive
Our People
Plain
Problems
Weekly
Wrote
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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Law
Punishment
Race
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Girl
Men
Yield
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The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
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Running
Home
Men
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